From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw/net/rocker: Avoid double-free of l2_flood.group_ids
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:00:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2395a353-36a9-49ba-bb0c-824f308cc90d@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260324193530.375628-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
On 24/3/26 20:35, Peter Maydell wrote:
> In of_dpa_cmd_add_l2_flood(), we allocate memory for the
> group->l2_flood.group_ids array, freeing any previous array.
> However, in the error-exit path we free the group_ids memory but do
> not clear the pointer to NULL. This means that if the guest causes
> us to take the error-exit path and then later call the function
> again, we will try again to free the memory we already freed.
>
> Fix this by clearing the group_ids pointer in the error exit
> path, so we maintain the invariant of "either it points at
> allocated memory, or it is NULL" (both being valid to g_free()).
>
> Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> Fixes: dc488f88806 ("rocker: add new rocker switch device")
> Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/3253
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> hw/net/rocker/rocker_of_dpa.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
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2026-03-24 19:35 [PATCH] hw/net/rocker: Avoid double-free of l2_flood.group_ids Peter Maydell
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